What I am doing is checking the availabilty of the remote database
periodically. The bad news is that we sometimes have network problems. If
the above would fail, then I trap the error and move on. But sometimes, it
is just painfully slow (like it doesn't fail but hangs for a long time).

Is there some way I can put a timer on the above that says if it can't
complete the query in 10 seconds, then fail?

thanks

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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